All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
I notice this quite a bit. When I'm at work I put the pod on all songs shuffle and a lot of times it will play 2 or 3 songs from the same cd within the first 40-50 songs, and sometimes it will play 2 songs from the same cd back to back.
I have 1749 songs and tonight its played 4 songs from the same cd in the first 60 songs played. Its played at least 2 songs from 4 different cds within that first 60 songs played as well. So within the first 60 played therre has been a lot of duplication from multiple cds.
Just weird to me.
# 1 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
you?ll find people discussing this in the old forum database, as well. the random just isn?t really random. ;) :(
m.r.m. at 2007-11-15 14:17:19 >
# 2 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
as with "every" hardware and software player, the random is not that random.
Try this. i created a playlist called 6 months. It is 50 of the songs i havent heard in the last 6 months. (I have over 3000 songs so the 50 is a good representation of 1 days worth of music for me.) Make sure that the random is checked in the playlist settings. When the list is played, the ipod creates a new one when i go back to it. Just use the smart playlists to their full function. Be creative with them
trippy at 2007-11-15 14:18:19 >
# 3 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
I think it said in the manual that the randome fuction depend on which song you select first
# 4 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
It is almost ipossible to create a software that will to random things.Even the machines in the casinos arent really random.When a machine wins more then 2 times in one week they change it.The olny way to create a random ganerator is with a leazer beam that is being reflected on a semimirror(a mirror that olny reflects part of the beam).Which photon is reflected and which not ir truly random.But i dont think ipod has something like that;)
# 5 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
Actually, a geiger counter and a source of radioactive decay would work as well. I've always thought that would be a great peripheral, a true random number generator.
# 7 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
I suppose I'd have to invest in that lead iPod case... So much for the weight loss switching to the gen 3 model.
# 8 Re: All songs shuffle: random doesnt seem so ramdon sometimes...
Ill tell you what is defintely random on the ipod. The colour of the screen. Its like Forrest used to say,
Opening the ipod is like a box of chocolates, you never know if you are screwed.
;-)
